Dr. Cherese F. Fine, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Photo Credit: Charles H.F. Davis III

Did you know?

Black professors make up only 5.4% of the total number of faculty. Disaggregated by rank, Black faculty comprise 6.4% of assistant professors, 5.5 % associate professors, and 3.8% full professors.

National Center for Education Statistics. (2022). Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty. Condition of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved [24 June 2022], from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/csc.

Dr. J.T. Snipes, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Photo Credit: Charles H.F. Davis III

What are our imagined futures?

The Imagined Futures of Black Faculty is a digital and visual scholarship project that brings together artistic portraits, interviews, and essays from Black college and university faculty. The project’s primary aims include using speculative approaches to increase our collective visibility, provide new models for self-authorship, and envision radical possibilities of Black life-making within and beyond the academy.

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